Ben Coopwood, MD, FACS |
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MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1990
Residency, Baylor College of Medicine, 1995
Dr. Coopwood was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in Austin, Texas. He earned his undergraduate
degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 and graduated from the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston in 1990 with a degree in Medicine. Dr. Coopwood was chosen as a
member of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society during medical school. He completed his
general surgery residency at Baylor College of Medicine in 1995. After residency, he moved to Austin
and practiced general and trauma/acute care surgery. Dr. Coopwood is certified by the American
Board of Surgery. He is currently a Surgical Critical Care Fellow at The University of Texas Health
Science Center at San Antonio, with an expected completion date of August, 2013, and a Clinical
Assistant Professor in the Division of Trauma & Emergency Surgery at UTHSCSA.

Mark Muir, MD |
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MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, 2006
Residency, General Surgery, UT Health Science Center San Antonio, 2013
Dr. Muir received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from The
University of Texas at Austin; completed a year-long Doris Duke Clinical
Research Fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical School at Dallas between third
and fourth years of medical school.

Susannah Nicholson, MD |
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MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Medical School - 2005
Residency, General Surgery, UT Health Science Center San Antonio, 2013
Susannah Nicholson is a General Surgery Resident working in Dr. Robert Johnson's
laboratory in the Trauma and Emergency Surgery Division of the Department of
Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Dr. Nicholson completed her medical training at the University of Texas Health
Science Center at San Antonio in 2005. Dr. Nicholson recently started her
research rotation working with Dr. Robert Johnson identifying pathophysiological
roles for endogenous carbon monoxide during trauma.

2013-2014 SAUSHEC Critical Care Fellows

Tyson Becker, MD |
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MD, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine, 2001
General Surgery Residency, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 2001-2007
Dr. Becker grew up in Missouri where he attended the accelerated combined
undergraduate/medical school program at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He entered
into active duty in the Army upon graduation in 2001 and completed a general surgery residency
at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, in 2007. Dr. Becker is certified by the
American Board of Surgery and has served as a staff general surgeon and Chief of General
Surgery at Ft. Belvoir Community Hospital in Virginia. He has served two tours in Afghanistan
as a trauma surgeon assigned to forward surgical teams. He is currently a Surgical Critical Care
Fellow assigned to the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium.